This comic book panel is from Dennis the Menace #10, May, 1955. Approved by the Comics Code Authority, it shows Dennis’ bare butt sticking out and his parents sleeping together in the same bed.
It Couldn’t Be Shown On TV!
Category: Comic Books
The Hulk on Virgin Vinyl
Okay, so the record isn’t vinyl, it’s mylar. But for what’s it’s worth the audio on the player below was captured when this 50-year-old flexi-disc was played for the very first time.
In the Belly of the Daily Beast
“It’s a real fucking mess over there. I think his money will be gone in a few weeks… Stan and [his daughter] JC are literally being picked apart by vultures.”
This upsetting update on Stan Lee in the Daily Beast isn’t something I want to be reading on a Sunday morning that’s one hour shorter than it was last week.
Extra: Mark Evanier’s thoughts on Stan’s condition and situation are at this link.
Excelsior!
I had Stan Lee autograph this page in Marvel Super Heroes #1, a one-shot comic book from the summer of ’66. I’m posting it to bring Stan some good luck, and not to jinx him!
Stan the Man With Pneumonia
Stan Lee is having a tough time. Here’s his message for all of us Merry Marvel Marchers. I’m unsettled by Stan’s weak voice and his somewhat downbeat tone.
https://youtu.be/qL91XrZSwq4
The Failure of Ayn Rand’s Objectivism
https://youtu.be/ACkiKVtF3nU
I have watched this installment of “Frontline” three, or maybe even four, times since it first aired in 2009. If anything I think it goes easy on Bill Clinton, by not pointing out that at the end of his administration he agreed to ending the Glass-Steagall Act.
Steve Ditko’s take on Ayn Rand’s philosophy deals with good vs. evil in terms of violent criminal activity, as you would expect from a comic book creator. As covered in the Frontline documentary, former SEC chairman Alan Greenspan adopted the extreme free market aspect of Rand’s Objectivism, as you would expect from an economist.
I like to think the fictional Mr. A would agree with me that what the Wall Street banks did by taking advantage of deregulation to commit legal fraud, in both its intent and the outcome of ten years ago, was corrupt and evil. Therein is what I see as the inherent irony of Ayn Rand’s philosophy.